Three patient associations invite the French to wear a mask in enclosed spaces in order to protect vulnerable people from Covid-19.
- Three patient associations are launching a call for solidarity through the “The Solidarity Mask” campaign.
- This campaign encourages the wearing of masks in enclosed spaces to protect vulnerable people from Covid-19.
- To date, it is estimated that one dialysis patient in 20 dies from Covid and that 1 kidney transplant patient in 8 is hospitalized for a serious form.
Three patient associations launch a call for solidarity through the campaign “The solidarity mask” which runs until January 14, 2024.
Covid-19 in France: 300,000 people are fragile
“Covid-19 circulates significantly in conjunction with other respiratory infections, which continue to hit vulnerable people hard and in particular severely immunocompromised people,” explain the activists from Renaloo, AIDES and ELLyE. “The latter respond poorly or not at all to vaccination and are at increased risk of serious forms, hospitalization and death,” they recall.
300,000 people in France are affected by this situation, in particular patients receiving organ transplants, dialysis, treated for certain cancers or even HIV carriers.
To date, it is estimated that one dialysis patient in 20 dies from Covid-19 and one kidney transplant patient in 8 is hospitalized for a serious form.
Covid-19: a multi-channel campaign to protect the most vulnerable thanks to masks
“Our multi-channel initiative focuses particularly on enclosed public places, where the risk of transmission of Covid-19 is high: transport, cinemas, shops, etc.”, detail the members of the three associations.
The communication campaign includes different components:
– The participation of 100 town halls and more than 300 pharmacies.
– A poster campaign via the RATP network and JC Decaux.
– The port of “solidarity mask” by personalities.
– An event on January 6, with a distribution of 250,000 marked masks “#ISuisSolidaire” Place de la République in Paris.
Covid-19: where is the epidemic in France?
Three years after the first official death linked to Covid-19, the global toll of the pandemic stands at 6.7 million deaths according to recent data from the University of Oxford.
“This week, indicators of acute respiratory infections were on the rise in community medicine and hospitals for all ages,” indicates Santé Publique France in its latest report on the subject. “The syndromic indicators of Covid-19 were decreasing in the city and in hospitals for all ages, but the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater remained at a high level. continues the health agency.
Furthermore, flu activity is still increasing sharply in France and particularly in hospitals. “The bronchiolitis epidemic is also still ongoing in our country, with a stabilization of syndromic indicators in the city and a decrease in the hospital,” conclude the experts.
